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...Trade is still a small player in the $70 billion global coffee industry, dominated by leviathans like Nestlé and Kraft. Because producer countries reap only $5 billion of that $70 billion, Fair Trade can help growers get more of their share. "Fair Trade is still, and will remain, a better deal for farmers," says Bacon. But it can help only so much. "This isn't a condemnation of the Fair Trade model," says Peyser. "It's a fact of life." One that all coffee drinkers may have to swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fair Trade: What Price for Good Coffee? | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...NCAA, an outfit in desperate need of stricter academic standards. Though he couldn't purify college sports--can anyone?--Brand's reforms held schools more accountable by threatening to revoke athletic scholarships for poor classroom performance. Brand never looked like a power broker; the former philosophy professor seemed better suited to lecture halls. The scholarly demeanor, however, masked his grit. "He doesn't take s___ from anyone," admitted one of Brand's toughest critics. In college sports, the bully will always be the bigger man on campus. But this smart guy was the bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Myles Brand | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

During the event, each winner or winning team gave the audience insights into the logistics and implications of their research.Projects ranged from the effect of naming cows on their milk production to determining whether it is better to be hit with a full bottle of beer or an empty bottle during a fight...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ig Nobel Winners Explain Research | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Moss says financial history gives students a better perspective on how finance works in reality, in addition to explaining how various aspects of the current crisis came about...

Author: By William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Curriculum Adapts to Meltdown | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...played a much better match this Friday than we had last week,” co-captain Chelsea Ono Horn said. “Back-to-back is a fun opportunity. We changed some things up to adjust to the Dartmouth offense because they’re a really quick team with a good setter...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Drops Second-Straight Match to Dartmouth | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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